Day + 26

Good News today!! The test for engraftment came back great. Doctors say she is fully engrafted! Which means the donors bone marrow found its way to Rachel's bone where it is making new cells...the cells that will have the enzyme that Rachel's cells were missing! So this is great news. Today was also Rachel's best day yet. After clinic she was hungry and wanted McDonalds chicken nuggets, so we went to McDonalds. She ate 4 chicken nuggets and about a 1/3 of a small fry, the most she has eaten so far. We ate lunch in the car and she wanted to sit there for a while and just enjoy being out. Then when we got back to the apartment she got on the computer for awhile and watched a movie. She hasn't slept since she woke up this morning and that is a first since transplant. Doctors also put her on a another medicine for nausea which she took as soon as we got in the car after clinic. This one comes from marijuana which gave us a good laugh. It is suppose to help with nausea and increase her appetite. So we are really hoping this works. We go back to clinic tomorrow for a transfusion. Her hemoglobin count was 8.3 and so they decided to go ahead and give her some red blood cells tomorrow. That way we don't have to go back to clinic until Tuesday. Neutrophil count and platelets were both good.
This is a day we have been waiting for....engraftment and a day where she was feeling a definite improvement.
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